WO2002009393A2 - Systeme de silence telephonique - Google Patents

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WO2002009393A2
WO2002009393A2 PCT/EP2001/007682 EP0107682W WO0209393A2 WO 2002009393 A2 WO2002009393 A2 WO 2002009393A2 EP 0107682 W EP0107682 W EP 0107682W WO 0209393 A2 WO0209393 A2 WO 0209393A2
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phone
actuator
silence
incoming call
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Miroslav Trajkovic
Mi-Suen Lee
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
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Priority to KR1020027003213A priority patent/KR20020029789A/ko
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/60—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers including speech amplifiers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/64—Automatic arrangements for answering calls; Automatic arrangements for recording messages for absent subscribers; Arrangements for recording conversations
    • H04M1/65—Recording arrangements for recording a message from the calling party
    • H04M1/654—Telephone line monitoring circuits therefor, e.g. ring detectors
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/66—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling
    • H04M1/663—Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/64—Automatic arrangements for answering calls; Automatic arrangements for recording messages for absent subscribers; Arrangements for recording conversations
    • H04M1/65—Recording arrangements for recording a message from the calling party
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M19/00—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems
    • H04M19/02—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone
    • H04M19/04—Current supply arrangements for telephone systems providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone the ringing-current being generated at the substations
    • H04M19/045—Call privacy arrangements, e.g. timely inhibiting the ring signal

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  • This invention generally relates to a method and device to simplify home telephone usage. Specifically, the present invention pertains to a system for quieting a telephone in accordance with a users request.
  • a telephone answering system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention may have a phone silence actuator for silencing a telephone ringer.
  • the phone silence actuator in response to an incoming call, may silence the telephone ringer or it may activate a telephone answering machine to answer the phone.
  • the phone silence actuator has a user input that may be activated by a user in response to the incoming call.
  • the user input may be at least one of a push-button input and a voice input.
  • the voice input may detect any user voice input or it may discriminate between different user commands to produce one of the desired responses.
  • FIGs. 1, 2, and 3 show block diagrams of phone silence telephone systems in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
  • Fig. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating operation of the phone silence systems shown in FIGs. 1, 2, and 3.
  • a system 100 having a phone base/phone answering machine 110 and a phone headset 170.
  • the phone base 110 and the phone headset 170 are operatively coupled together for operating as is known in the art as well as for operating in accordance with the present invention.
  • a ringer actuator 120 operatively coupled to a speaker 150 via a switching device 160 illustratively shown as a relay device.
  • the operation of ringer actuators and ringer output devices are well known by a person of ordinary skill in the art and will not be discussed further herein.
  • the device shown as a speaker could well be a simple bell system, such as a solenoid, clapper, bell, etc., or any other known device for produce an auditory signal indicating that an incoming telephone call is being received.
  • the auditory signal may be accompanied by a visual indicator, such as a flashing or steady visual signal, such as a light, or in some embodiments, the visual signal may replace the auditory signal as the sole indication of an incoming call.
  • the switching device 160 contains a switch 164 and a solenoid device 162.
  • the solenoid device 162 is utilized for moving the switch from a first position 166 to a second position 168.
  • the ringer actuator 120 In the first position 166, the ringer actuator 120 is coupled to the speaker 150. In the second position 168, the ringer actuator 120 and speaker 150 are decoupled.
  • the system in accordance with the present invention is operative to stop the incoming call indicator signal, such as the ringer output auditory signal, from continuing in response to an incoming call as further described herein below.
  • the phone headset 170 contains a phone silence actuator 180.
  • the phone silence actuator 180 may be a simple mechanical device or may be a processor device that may serve the following described functions or may be combined to perform numerous other typical phone headset functions as would be readily understood in the telephone art.
  • the phone silence actuator 180 contains two user selectable inputs, such as buttons, for enabling the user to activate the phone silence actuator to operate in one of two operative modes. In a first mode of operation of the phone silence actuator 180, a silence button 182 is utilized by the user when the user does not wish to be further disturbed by an incoming call indicator signal.
  • depression by the user of the silence button 182 causes the phone silence actuator to send a first phone silence actuator signal to a receiver 130, contained within the phone base 110 and coupled to the solenoid 162.
  • the solenoid 162 decouples the ringer actuator 120 from the speaker 150 to stop the incoming call indicator signal.
  • a phone answering machine actuation button 184 is utilized also by the user when the user does not wish to be further disturbed by an incoming call indicator signal.
  • depression of the phone answering machine actuation button 184 causes the phone silence actuator 180 to send a second phone silence actuator signal to the receiver 130.
  • the solenoid 162 decouples the ringer actuator 120 from the speaker 150 to stop the incoming calling indicating signal and also causes the phone answering machine to answer the phone.
  • the phone answering machine may answer the phone after some delayed time as is known in the art, or the phone answering machine may immediately answer the phone in response to the second received signal.
  • the switching device 160 may be not included in the phone base 110 since the answering machine immediately answering the incoming call, in effect, stops the incoming call indicator signal.
  • the answering machine may be a separate device not incorporated into the phone base. In these embodiments, the switching device 160 may produce a signal to activate the external answering machine to respond as described above.
  • buttons 182, 184 may be deleted and one of the respective above described modes may also be deleted from the system 100.
  • one of the buttons 182, 184 may be deleted and both of the above-described modes may be operable by different input sequences of input selections on the one remaining button. For example, a single depression of the remaining button may activate the phone silence mode of actuation while repeated depression of the remaining button may activate the phone machine-answering mode of actuation.
  • FIG. 2 shows an embodiment 200 of the present invention including a phone base/answering machine 210 and a phone headset 270.
  • the phone base 210 contains a processor 260 and a speaker 250, operatively coupled together for producing the incoming call indicator signal.
  • the processor 260 may be a dedicated processor for operating in accordance with the present invention or may be a general purpose processor for further performing standard phone base operation function as would be readily understood by a person of ordinary skill in the art.
  • the phone headset 270 contains a phone silence actuator 280 that operates similar to the phone silence actuator 180 shown in FIG. 1, except that the silence button 182 and the phone machine actuation button 184 are deleted as described herein below.
  • the phone silence actuator 280 is operatively coupled to an auditory input 282 for receiving a user's auditory input signal.
  • the phone silence actuator 280 contains at least a sound detection system for detecting the user's auditory input signal.
  • the phone silence actuator 280 also contains a sound discriminating system for discriminating between one of two or more different user input auditory signals.
  • the phone silence actuator 280 in response to the user input auditory signal/signals, transmits at least one of the first or second signals to the processor 260 for stopping the incoming call indicator signal from being produced. In response to the received at least one of the first or second signals, the incoming call indicator signal may be stopped and/or the phone answering machine may be actuated.
  • the phone silence actuator 280 containing the sound discriminating system may discriminate between the different user input auditory signals to determine which of the first or second signals to send to the base unit 210. For example, if the user input auditory signal is stop, stop ringing, or the like, the phone silence actuator 280 may produce the first signal. If the user input auditory signal is answer, answer the phone, or the like, the phone silence actuator 280 may produce the second signal.
  • Systems for discriminating between different user input auditory signals are known and will not described further herein.
  • FIG. 3 shows an embodiment 300 of the present invention wherein a phone silence actuator 370 is incorporated into a base station 310 as opposed to a separate phone headset as shown in FIGs. 1 and 2.
  • the phone silence actuator 370 is operatively coupled to a processor 360.
  • the phone silence actuator 370 may have buttons 182, 184 and/or an auditory input 282.
  • the operation of the phone silence actuator 370 and the processor 360 may be similar to as shown in either of FIGs. 1 and 2 phone silence actuators and processors/ringer actuator and switching device, respectively, and accordingly, will not be described further herein.
  • FIG. 4 is a flow diagram 400 illustrating an operation of a system in accordance with the illustrative embodiments described herein above. In act 410, the system receives an incoming call.
  • the system starts the incoming phone call indicator signal.
  • the system may receive a phone silence actuation signal.
  • the incoming phone call indicator signal is continued in act 440.
  • the system discriminates which of the first or second phone actuation signals is received by the system. If the first phone actuation signal is received, then in act 470, the system deactivates the incoming phone call indicator signal. If the second phone actuation signal is received, then in act 460, the system sets the answering machine to answer the incoming call.
  • act 450 may be eliminated and one of acts 460, 470 may be directly initiated in response to receiving the phone silence actuator signal in act 430.

Abstract

L'invention concerne un système de répondeur téléphonique présentant un dispositif téléphonique (280) de commande de silence permettant d'arrêter le bruit d'une sonnerie de téléphone. Le dispositif téléphonique de commande de silence peut, en réponse à un appel entrant, arrêter la sonnerie de téléphone ou activer un répondeur pour répondre à l'appel. Le dispositif téléphonique de commande de silence présente une entrée utilisateur qui peut être activée par un utilisateur en réponse à un appel entrant. L'entrée utilisateur peut consister en au moins une entrée à bouton-poussoir et une entrée vocale. L'entrée vocale peut détecter n'importe quelle entrée vocale d'utilisateur ou faire la différence entre différentes commandes d'utilisateur afin de produire une des réponse désirées.
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